Carpenters’The No. 54 July 2016 Company BROADSHEET and Report to the Livery

Carpenters’ Company team at the Inter-Livery Ski-ing in January (left to right: Jane Evelegh, Frances Galbraith, Ben Brading & Mark Horn) Message from the Master Michael Neal reports: much amusement at the results Being a “bricks and mortar” man, The New Year brought news ceremony. New Liverymen often I have always taken an interest in that our Carpenters’ Ski Team say to me that they would like to the Company’s assets. had excelled at the Inter-Livery have more opportunity to meet Whilst there has been change at Ski Competition in Morzine. The other Liverymen: our bridge, clay both Godalming and Rustington, individual time scores were a credit pigeon, golf, skiing and tennis the Company’s core Throgmorton to the team, particularly as there events are an excellent method of Estate sits within the orbit of were some professional skiers fostering fellowship. No expertise Liverpool Street’s Crossrail station. amongst the competition. The in those pastimes or sports is The changes that this north presentation by the Carpenters’ necessary and I urge you to join eastern section of the City will Company of the “Wooden Skis” in and to participate in our annual see as a result of increased footfall trophy, for more sedate skiers, Company visit which is always will be game changing and very which had been commissioned great fun. This year 64 of us visited good news for the Company in the by Liveryman Mark Horn and The Hague in the Netherlands, as future. At Stratford, access to the made by Matthew Whiteley at the reflected in the photographs on new Crossrail station is still being Building Crafts College, provided pages 26 and 27. planned and we are keeping our  p2 Message from the Master continued attend as many of these as possible. I have found it gratifying to discover the high regard in which our Company is held by other -related Companies. Sophie has recently led a group of more than 40 Masters’ Consorts on a tour of the BCC followed by lunch at the Hall. Thank you letters were effusive in their praise for our efforts to promote timber, stone and other employable skills.

In February, I attended the funeral of Liveryman Peter Hart. Many of you will remember him as a courteous and enthusiastic man who clearly had great breadth of experience in many walks of life. I did not know at the time of the funeral that Peter had left the Carpenters’ Company the sum of £100,000 to be used to finance a specific project. We shall Three generations of the Neal family (left-right) Liveryman Harry discuss this at the General Court Neal, Master Michael Neal and Past Master Morton Neal of the Livery on 19th July and I fingers crossed that the Carpenters diverse range of construction look forward to receiving your Estate will be linked to one of the skills and I have been particularly suggestions concerning the use of station entrances. Again this is pleased that the practical this wonderful legacy. good news for the future of our construction courses being run at property assets there. our Gibbins Road site are attracting One of the most poignant the attention of major construction moments of my year as Master I have recently handed over as companies and infrastructure was admitting my son, Harry, to our representative on the Council projects, such as Crossrail. the Livery in the presence of my of the City & Guilds London father, Past Master Morton Neal Institute. I have held this position I have enjoyed visiting the schools and the Court. Patrimony is no for the last ten years and have with which we have historic longer a means of admittance to found it fascinating to learn about connections and where we have our Livery but I am glad that family government policy regarding several selected students with connections remain so strong. further education. Liveryman bursaries. My wife, Sophie, and I In the photo on this page we are Mark Horn has replaced me on the have just returned from Speech Day posing under the Coade stone Council and I wish him luck in this at Christ’s Hospital and as with all Carpenters’ arms in the entrance important role. The Carpenters’ the other schools that I have visited, hall, which my father rescued from Company was one of 16 Livery you cannot help but be impressed a builder’s skip during his year as Companies that founded City & by the capital investment in Master in 1997. Guilds in 1878 at a time when current and future building. Our the country was increasingly students are all enormously grateful It remains for me to thank the conscious of the need to promote for our support. Clerk and his team for all their vocational skills. Never has the invaluable support and help during skills debate been more critical The Master’s role is also to the last year. It has been a privilege than it is now. Our Building Crafts represent the Company at to represent you as Master and I College is delivering vocational events held by the other Livery will look back on my year with training to 650 students in a Companies. I have done my best to fond memories. 2 Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet Obituaries retired from the practice (by then By Barry Woodman, friend, Past known simply as Walfords) in 1991, Master of the Masons’ Company having spent his entire career with and fellow founding Liveryman the same firm in St. James’s Street. of the Surveyors’ Company Peter was born in Kensington and spent his childhood in Croydon. He was educated at Dulwich College where, by his own admission, he was “a duffer at all ball games”. His professional training at Regent Street Polytechnic was interrupted by military service in the Royal Engineers from 1943-48, where Liveryman Peter Dorney Hart he reached the rank of Captain. (born 24th June 1925, Having resumed his studies, Peter died 21st December 2015) qualified as a Chartered Surveyor The Clerk reports: (ARICS) in 1953, advancing I regret to report that Liveryman to Fellow in 1965, and was Peter Hart died on 21st December subsequently elected President of 2015. He was 90 years old and had the Quantity Surveyors’ Division of been a Liveryman for more than the Royal Institution of Chartered 30 years. An obituary describing Surveyors in 1989-90. This was his life is given below. among several other important honorary posts, both within and In his Will Peter left £100,000 outside his profession, which he to the Carpenters’ Company, held over many years. with the instruction that “the sum is not to be used for general As well as being a Liveryman of purposes but shall be applied at the Carpenters’ Company, Peter your sole and absolute discretion was also a founder member of to finance a specific project”. the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors. His extra- Naturally the Court intends mural interests included beagling to follow Peter’s instruction with the Surrey & North Sussex in a meaningful and enduring Beagles, archaeology, family fashion and now seeks your ideas history and gardening. concerning an appropriate specific project. If you have any ideas please Peter married Paulette (née send them to me at the Hall during Pearmain) in 1958, and they the coming months. Ideally we will lived happily until her death in have identified a suitable method of 2005. There were no children marking Peter’s generous bequest of the marriage. Peter will be by this time next year. remembered as a true gentleman, upright and punctilious, and an Peter Hart, who has died aged 90, honourable man in every way. was an eminent , having joined the firm of G.D. Walford & Partners in 1950 as a trainee surveyor, rising to become senior partner in 1982. He finally Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet 3 BUILDING CRAFTS COLLEGE The Principal & Freeman Len Conway, reports: students may feel that there is little time to move After much change and the development of new out of their usual working environment to engage areas of work, 2016 has seen the College delivering a with others. However it is important that differing cohesive range of courses divided into distinct areas areas of work are brought together in order to share of provision: experiences and take a wider view. Some of the ways we will do this over the coming year will include: • Wood Occupations headed by the Chief Instructor Jim O’Brien • Study visits that will bring together differing groups during a visit or trip, such as the annual • Construction headed by Nigel Gilkison visit to the Weald and Downland Museum. • Site Management courses headed by John • Bringing various groups together to listen to the Appleton and Francis Williams range of excellent visiting speakers who come • Conservation headed by Bruce Induni into the College throughout the year. • Practical projects that bring together students These courses are supported, cross-college, by our from different disciplines so they can contribute Maths and English tutors led by Frances Hill and as part of a team. all areas are producing student success rates of between 80-90% each year. • Group activities such as enrichment programmes and sporting activities. Whilst realizing the benefits of having distinct areas • Continuing our involvement with the construction of work it is vitally important that the College works industry so that students gain a wider understanding together. It is our aim that all students benefit from of the skills deployed on a project or a site. the range of skills and knowledge being delivered and that there is an interchange of information Visitors regularly comment on the positive, respectful between departments so that students can share and busy atmosphere they witness in the College and their experiences and learning. On one level this it is hoped that the increase in cooperative activities, is achieved by participation in college-wide events involving as many as possible of the 650 students we such as prize-giving and the End of Year show. expect to enrol next academic year, will add to this Collaboration and competiveness are engendered by sense of mutual awareness and respect throughout such events. This is not as easy as it sounds. Every the Building Crafts College. course has a demanding syllabus so that staff and

A View of the Other Site

Shortly after moving to its from the main site. Funds for the brought into use the rest of present site in 2001 the Building development of the new centre the area. As a result, the centre Crafts College began to increase were restricted so only about 50% was transformed into flexible its student numbers. By 2010, of the space was brought into classrooms, computer suites, this growth had reached such use at first. catering facilities and offices with a level that we could no longer the great majority of the work accommodate all of our courses Far from spending life as a lesser being carried out by the staff and at the Kennard Road Centre outpost of the College, the students themselves. Courses on the Carpenters Estate in staff at the centre, led by Mick there now include Site , Stratford. It was great news Hedgeland, established a unique Maintenance Operations, when the Carpenters’ Company space in delivering courses Construction Operations, suggested that we might be able in larger-scale construction Concrete Formwork and pre- to use a commercial building disciplines. They not only employment training for both that had hitherto been rented by created a realistic and flexible adults and 16-18 year olds. This a company selling beds, located working environment but over year almost 200 students will in Gibbins Road a short distance the next three years they also have studied at the Centre. 4 Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet The Gibbins Road Team left to right: Mick Hedgeland (Centre Coordinator), Darren Oliver (Construction Operations), James Bryan (Construction), Andrew Stirrup (Site Carpentry), Steve Hendel (Multi-crafts)

During inspections, external atmosphere, both in the way our these traits and is a great tribute examiner visits and feedback from students apply themselves to to the work of Mick Hedgeland visitors, a similar theme repeats their work and in relationships and the team. itself concerning the flexibility between students and staff. Our of the College and its excellent Gibbins Road Centre epitomises

The Master’s Lady’s Visit

On 5th May, more than 40 Consorts of Livery Company Masters visited the College at the invitation of the Carpenters’ Master’s Lady, Mrs Sophie Neal. The visit consisted of a presentation about the College given by the Principal and a tour of the Kennard Road Centre. Students from our Fine Woodwork programme set up a special display of their work and other learners from the 14-16 year old group, and students of stonemasonry and joinery explained their projects to the visitors. This is now an annual and popular event for the College.

Livery Company Masters’ Consorts during their visit to the Building Crafts College in May

Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet 5 Study Trips ‘Learn by Doing - Learn by Seeing’ Whilst much practice and learning takes place in the College itself, we also recognise that high quality tuition must be supplemented by allowing students to see buildings and working processes elsewhere. To do this, the College organises a range of study visits and trips. Students have participated in over 40 visits and study trips so far this year, ranging from site visits to live construction projects, such as the International Quarter development on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park; visits to construction-based manufacturers Conservation degree students visit the Venice Arsenale such as Taylor Made Joinery in Ipswich; a coach trip to the Weald and Downland Museum; visits to Cathedrals such as Canterbury (where students are shown around the maintenance works by BCC graduates now employed there); visits by our furniture-making students to makers’ workshops; and international study trips, such as that to Hamburg for joinery apprentices and the trip to Budapest by our degree students which they organised themselves. Trips are generously supported by the Carpenters’ Company and other friends of the College, such Stonemasonry and Conservation students atop the Tower at Canterbury Cathedral as the Cass Foundation and the Masons’ Company.

Hamburg Study trip in May for Wood Occupation students (left to right) Michael Stirrup, Hans Burwieck, Luke Martin, Wolfgang Bierkarre, Frances Hill, Kristian Barlow, David Young, Sonke Burwieck, William Cole, Dominic Mitchell-Bennett, Jamie Churchman and David Pearham

6 Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet CRAFT Wood Awards 2016

Written by , Freeman Francesca & Product Judging Panel is Ruth Aram, who heads Gregson up buying for the renowned Aram Store, based in The Wood Awards: Excellence in British Covent Garden. The winners will be announced Architecture & Product Design has now closed its at the Wood Awards Ceremony at the Hall on 22nd entries for 2016. We have enjoyed another successful November but before this the shortlisted furniture year with more than 330 entries, (approximately 160 projects will be on display during the London buildings and 170 furniture pieces) which is a record Design Festival. The details of all previous winners number of entries. Liveryman Michael Morrison of from 2003 onwards can now be found on the new Purcell and Max Fraser of Spotlight Press return as digital archive on the Wood Awards website. For Chairmen of the Buildings and Furniture & Product further information visit www.woodawards.com. Judging Panels respectively. New to the Furniture

Chair for The Master of the Carpenters’ Company by John Makepeace Some time ago, the current Master and I met at Hillier’s Arboretum on an International Dendrology Society visit. The Master mentioned that the Carpenters’ Company intended to commission a new Master’s Chair for the Dining Hall. This led to the brief suggesting a chair that would elegantly express the history, values and purpose of the Company in the twenty-first century.

I responded with three design proposals. One referred to the construction by the King’s Carpenter of the magnificent gold tents for the Field of Cloth of Gold in 1520. Another alluded to the light-weight timber buildings pioneered by Frei Otto and Sir Ted Happold. The third, more organic and sculptural in form, combined traditional and new technologies. Originally designed to have a black lacquer finish with the shield in white gold, it transpired that the Company had access to some 5,000 year-old bog oak, ideal for the project. The Craft Committee and Court selected the third option, shown below, and The Master Michael Neal (left) with John Makepeace and the new Master’s Chair it was delivered to the Hall in May. Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet 7 Bayfordbury Pinetum continued

A new table for the Drapers’ Company by Liveryman Nick Gutfreund Making a piece of furniture for anyone is always an adventure; to be invited to make a piece for one of our neighbouring Livery Companies is a privilege as well. The Drapers’ Company wanted to commission a piece of furniture; the first time they have done so in recent history, to help mark their 650th anniversary. The commission was for a table and set of 18 chairs for their Wardens’ Room, which looks out over their garden. I approached the design as I do with all my commissions; to find ways to inextricably link the piece to the client. The table Drapers’ Table and Chairs has a black walnut burr quarter matched veneer top, with a are 20 twists that make up the are also in solid black walnut and marquetry Drapers’ crest in the banding across each end of the have been layered and shaped to centre and a ripple sycamore edge main table (there are 20 nails in a symbolise drapes. Many of these banding with a twisted “thread” drapers’ ell, which is a traditional details flow through into the detail. Traditional drapers’ measurement for the width of design of the accompanying 18 measurements have been woven a roll of cloth). The table top black walnut chairs, which have into this edge banding detail; lipping, with hand carved scroll the notable addition of the blue each complete twist is a nail in ends to symbolise rolls of cloth, leather seats and back splats with length (2 ¼ inches) and there is solid black walnut. The legs blind embossed Drapers’ ram.

The Prince’s Foundation for the Building Craft Apprenticeship by Lily Marsh, Building Crafts College Student of the Year 2014-15 In July last year I started an eight-month Building Crafts Apprenticeship (BCA) at The Prince’s Foundation as a stonemason. From the start of my earlier training with the Building Crafts College, my ambition was to graduate to this intense training programme, which offered the opportunity to travel and work across the UK, and the chance to progress my skills and knowledge and bolster the career change I had made by gaining an NVQ Level 3 in Heritage Stonemasonry. Throughout the eight months, I felt privileged to be part of the scheme: from the three-week summer school, where we had Lily on site life drawing classes, city drawing lessons, inspiring lectures and fun geometry classes (we built a yurt...) and carve a Green Man for the front façade of the to the live build, where I was allowed to design building - the whole experience was incredible. 8 Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet My four hands-on placements during the eight where we worked to repair and fix a buttress. The months were invaluable. The first was with Laing placements were a unique and vital opportunity to Traditional Masonry, working in the centre of be part of the team, and experience real life on a Inverness to repair the City’s Townhouse, up a working site. I had time to be curious, ask questions very high scaffold from which I could see the and learn about the different techniques used by highlands and snow-capped peaks. The second was skilled crafts people. The Prince’s Foundation with Cliveden Conservation, working to repair the Apprenticeship has been a great grounding enabling gardener’s at Windsor Castle. The third was at my move into employment as a stonemason. It has Gloucester Cathedral, where I carved and repaired enabled me to start developing my own informed a weathering buttress on the south side of the Lady approach and ways of working, which will continue Chapel; and the last was at Woodchester Mansion as I gain experience.

Joint Fellowship – Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and the Carpenters’ Company

An article based on a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship project titled ‘Japanese Wood Craftsmanship’ by furniture designer and maker Hugh Miller. Funding for this study was provided jointly by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and the Carpenters’ Company.

The Use of Water as a Tool in Japanese Woodworking

Furniture making and wood craftsmanship in the UK seem to be at a crossroads. Although we have a rich and enviable woodworking tradition, it can sometimes feel as if the introduction of processes such as Computer Numerical Control milling, laser cutting and mass production techniques are distancing the craftsman or woman from his or her material. This results in a loss of integrity and authenticity - what might be called an absence of the maker’s Urushi-lacquered dish ‘fingerprints’ on the finished work. woodworking, water is usually and this is done in a carefully Japan can feel like an antidote considered an enemy - something controlled way through air or to such frustrations. From their to be expunged, avoided and kiln drying. However, the tubes unique set of tools, to the many guarded against. in the wood never lose their obscure techniques that have been ability to reabsorb moisture. Dry developed, to the philosophies Wood can be imagined as timber, if left in wet conditions, that guide decision making, there a bundle of tubes running will take on moisture until it is at is something special about wood lengthways up the trunk. These equilibrium with the surrounding craftsmanship in Japan. tubes contain a lot of water, environment. In the case of equating to a huge percentage of furniture, this could mean cracks A ‘tool’ used with surprising the weight of a newly felled tree. developing, glue lines breaking frequency in Japanese For internal use, this moisture and joints working loose - all woodworking is water and must be removed in order to things to be avoided. For this moisture whereas in Western obtain strong, stable timber, reason, woodworkers generally  p10 Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet 9 Joint Fellowship – Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and the Carpenters’ Company continued try to avoid their work being exposed to water.

In Japanese workshops, water plays a much more harmonious role. Many woodworkers in Japan make small items as a matter of course, providing as a low- priced introduction to the style and quality of a maker’s work, and they are often made from the off-cuts of larger projects. One such item is a serving dish made by Sugawara Hiroyuki. The oval shaped piece of timber is soaked in water for three days until saturated. The timber is Nakagawa Shuji’s cedar buckets then put in a standard microwave for three minutes. This turns A more everyday use of water is on the surface, and makes them the water to steam, and makes in the planing of difficult grain. It easier to slice, in a similar way the timber very pliable. It is is always desirable to plane in the that it is easier to cut hair when then put into a former which direction that the grain is lying so it is wet. A disadvantage to this holds the piece in a shallow as to avoid tear-out, in a similar method, aside from adding curve. When the timber is dry, way to stroking a cat in the moisture to the dry timber, the shape is fixed. This simple direction its fur grows. But what might be that it would rust the process belies a huge amount of if the grain is lying in different steel bodies of Western planes. experience and experimentation directions within a single piece Japanese planes have wooden by Sugawara. The thickness of of timber? This common problem bodies and so do not suffer from the timber, the soaking time and has many remedies - up this problem. However, by dusting water temperature, the time in the mouth of the plane and using the Western metal plane after use the microwave and the power a chip breaker; using a thicker, with an oil-soaked wad of leather, setting used, and the amount of sharper blade; and skewing the the issue of rust can be mitigated. bend obtainable and time given blade to artificially lower the for drying are all finely balanced. cutting angle. A beautifully simple The use of water as a tool in Too thick - and the timber cracks; and quick technique practiced Japanese woodwork illustrates the too short a time in the former - by master woodworker, Izaki depth of knowledge craftspeople the timber springs back. These Masaharu, is to spray the surface there have for their material. metrics are all but hidden in the of the timber with water and leave Furthermore the maker’s final item - a delightful urushi- it to soak in for a few minutes. fingerprints are retained on the lacquered dish. This plumps up the wood fibres finished work.

More information about Hugh Miller’s work and study can be found at www.hughmillerfurniture.co.uk. 10 Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet Royal School of Military Engineering Lance Corporal Edward Graham (centre) was presented with the 2016 Premier Carpenter Award at the Court Lunch in February by the Master Michael Neal (left) accompanied by Major Tim Gilbert

Annual Craft Lecture City & Guilds Carpenters’ This year’s Lecture was delivered by Dr Anya Matthews Company Prize on the 5th April on the pertinent subject of the rebuilding of the City’s Livery Halls after the Great Fire Luke Wood of the Building Crafts College received of London. The event was co-hosted by the Worshipful the Carpenters’ Company Prize from HRH, The Company of and proved of great interest Princess Royal, President of the City & Guilds of in the 350th anniversary year of the Fire. London Institute at the Institute’s Annual Prince Philip Medal Ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 8th June.

(Left-right) The Master Michael Neal, Dr Anya Matthews and the Master of the Worshipful Company of Architects Peter Murray are pictured here Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet 11 CHARITIES AND GRANTS The Craft and Charities Administrator Vivienne Pocock reports:

The Carpenters’ Company Charitable Trust (CCCT)

7% Unallocated The Building Crafts College is Admin, Fees 1% the principal beneficiary of the Misc 3% CCCT (see chart below). Funds Other City Links4% are allocated to help offset the Carpenters Primary School 3% College’s running costs. Other Carpenters & Docklands Centre 3% charities supported by the Trust General Charities 3% include the Lord Mayor’s Appeal, the Sheriffs’ and Recorder’s Crafts in General 6% Fund, St Paul’s Cathedral, and The Soldiers’ Charity (through The Lord Mayor’s Big Curry Lunch). We also channel funds to craft organisations such Building Crafts College 69% as our partnerships with the William Morris Craft Fellowship we are supporting a new charity and Marquetry, Hand Engraving, Scheme, The Zibby Garnett Travel this year, The Creative Dimension, Mural Painting, Stone-working Fellowship and the Winston which is running five workshops and Woodworking (the latter two Churchill Memorial Trust (see in London in August. These skills being taught at our Building separate articles by Hugh Miller workshops will offer 14-18 year Crafts College in Stratford). and by Lily Marsh). In addition, old makers courses in Gilding

Norton Folgate Trust

The NFT provides support to Petersfield. Two of these Building at The Prince’s Foundation on individuals, many of whom are Crafts College alumni (Paulo its Building Crafts Apprentices engaged in education or craft de Vasconcelos and Danny course. This programme training (see chart below). Our Humphreys) are now full-time employed four students this year biggest commitment is to our employees at the Workshop. Lastly from the Building Crafts College. students at the Building Crafts we sponsor an apprenticeship College but they also receive grants from other sources, such as the Temporary/ Norton Folgate Fees bursaries provided by the generosity Tertiary Pensions 1% of our Liverymen, as well as awards 4% 26% from the Pysden and Stuckey Bequests and the Cass Foundation. Enduring/ In addition, a substantial proportion Tertiary of available funds are allocated 24% from the NFT to our scholars at several schools related to the City of London, students at Oxbridge and Imperial College and to a few undergraduates at other universities.

We continue to sponsor a graduate from the Building Crafts Building Crafts College College as an apprentice at the 18% Secondary Education Edward Barnsley Workshop in 26% 12 Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet Rustington Convalescent Home

A Report by Past Master Peter Povey, Chairman of from Sir Henry, and later from his daughter Mrs. the Home Committee of Management Mary Wharrie. It is these endowments which have allowed the Home to continue to provide In 2015 the Company obtained planning consent convalescent care in attractive surroundings by the from Arun District Council to build 26 new sea, some 119 years after the Home’s foundation. dwellings on land no longer required for Home use, together with listed building consent to re-use There is a common misconception that entry to the Laundry Building, to re-use both the Cook’s the Home is restricted to carpenters, or indeed House and Carpenters’ House, and to provide a only to members of the Carpenters’ Company. first floor extension to the Home itself to create Unequivocally, Rustington Convalescent Home is four patient rooms with improved disabled access. open to all, and over half the cost for each admission Discussions are continuing with Council’s officers is borne by the Trust from the income from prudent on aspects of these consents, and no decision has investments derived from the Harben and Wharrie been made yet as to when development will take bequests. However, over time the present level of place. Nonetheless, it seems appropriate at this time subsidy may be hard to sustain, and, if and when to outline elements of the Company’s stewardship of the site developments progress, additional income the Home. produced will help safeguard the continued operation of the Home. The Master and Wardens Members of the Livery will know that Rustington and Court of Assistants of our Company govern the was purpose-built as a Convalescent Home for Home, but supervision is delegated to a Committee “working men and others” in 1897, at the behest of of Management and to the Clerk as Secretary of the Sir Henry Harben, then Deputy Chairman and later Home. Day-to-day management rests with the Home President of the Prudential Assurance Company, Manager, Freeman Julia Haynes. The Committee and Master of the Carpenters’ Company in 1893. At meets three times a year or as necessary, and Harben’s death in 1911, the Carpenters’ Company reports to the Court after each meeting, making any assumed Trusteeship of the Home, now a Grade necessary recommendation for action to the Court II Listed Building, with a generous endowment as Trustee. The current registration authority for the  p14 Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet 13 Rustington Convalescent Home continued Home is the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the re-painting and re-pointing programme for the regulator of health and social care in England. facades of the building. The Committee is fortunate to have the valued assistance of Past Master William The regulator carries out periodic inspections, Haynes, a member of the Committee, who advises on mostly unannounced. CQC Inspections were carried maintenance and improvement works, and carries out in October 2013 and September 2014, and it is out twice-yearly Health & Safety Inspections. During anticipated that Inspectors will visit again not later the past year, Liveryman James Preston, a co-opted than October 2016. At these unannounced visits, member of the Committee, has carried out an the Inspectors found that the Home amply met the asbestos audit, and his recommendations have been Commission’s five assessed criteria. The full 2013 implemented to ensure compliance with current and 2014 Reports can be viewed on-line on the legislation. The local authority environmental health Commission’s Website http://www.cqc.org.uk/. department also regularly inspects food preparation Whilst CQC inspections are infrequent, members of and the Home continues to hold the top Five Star the Management Committee visit the Home on rota Food Hygiene Rating. every month. They each inspect the facilities of the Home, sample the food, and spend time obtaining The staff of the Home is its most significant asset. the opinions of residents, visitors and staff on the Many have served for a considerable number workings of the Home. of years, and staff turnover is low. In some care facilities, this can lead to inertia, but under the After each monthly visit, the individual Committee direction of the Home Manager, there is an extensive member sends a report to the Home Manager and programme of on-going training and review, with any issues arising are dealt with. These visits form staff improving qualifications, keeping abreast of part of the regulatory process, and this continuous current best practice, and updating care and safety evaluation of the service drives improvement. procedures as required. Residents are particularly complimentary about the staff and the food, but one perennial subject raised The Home has 28 en-suite bedrooms, many with by residents and staff has been the difficulty of a sea view, for people requiring convalescence opening and closing the sash windows especially in and respite care. Three bedrooms are available the bedrooms. The Court has now agreed a major for relatives to stay with family members. Weekly repair and replacement programme over the summer fees are modest – currently £675 for a total care to deal with this problem, in addition to a rolling package and full board for the majority of residents,

14 Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet after time for convalescence or respite care, because they fi nd the Home meets their needs admirably. Over half of the admissions are because of personal recommendations from former residents, though the staff make considerable efforts to encourage more referrals by health and social care professionals, and varieties of external advertising have been explored.

I urge members of the Livery to play a part in marketing the Home by publicising its benefi ts to family, friends and colleagues, stressing that it is open to all; that it is incredibly cost-effective because and £850 for higher dependency residents – a of the support from the endowment; but above all, lower cost than at many seaside bed and breakfast as the Care Quality Commission Reports confi rm, establishments. is variable month on that Rustington Convalescent Home offers a friendly, month, but over the past two years, the average safe, secure, and high quality service for people occupancy has been of the order of 73%, so there in relevant need. You can learn more about the is capacity for more people to be admitted, and Home from the new web site www.rustcon.co.uk/. the Home would welcome that. The admission I commend this web site, as it details the facilities, procedure is straightforward, and is initiated by an activities, admission arrangements, and history of internet or telephone enquiry, though a consultant our Company’s Convalescent Home, with a most or general practitioner report is required before a useful Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) section. bed can be confi rmed. Many residents return time

Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet 15 Richard Wyatt’s Carpenters & Docklands Almshouses Centre

An update by the Clerk I am pleased to report that the Trust completed the sale of the property assets of Richard Wyatt’s Trust on 18th April for £1,550,000. This figure exceeded the estimate suggested by an expert local surveyor 18 months previously. The purchaser was a developer named Nationalcorp and we believe that they intend to adapt the almshouses for the residential market.

We are now in the process of applying to the Charity Commission for permission to merge the Trust into Whiteley Homes Trust near Walton-on-Thames.

Children from Carpenters school enjoying a climbing wall over an Easter break programme organised by the Centre

Lord Mayor’s Big Curry Lunch

The Company and guests including member of 4 RIFLES assembled at the Guildhall on 7th April for the Lord Mayor’s annual Curry Lunch

16 Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet London Youth Rowing The Carpenters’ Company is a founder member available for those with disabilities. London Youth of London Youth Rowing. Liveryman Ben Brading Rowing targets entries from clubs and schools which recently attended the National Junior Indoor Rowing do not typically offer rowing. Championships (NJIRC) as our representative to LYR. Everyone – competitors and volunteers alike London Youth Rowing’s work ensures that nobody – greatly enjoyed a day which offered benefits is excluded from the obvious benefits of rowing. beyond the competition itself by teaching the Now in its tenth year, the NJIRC offers an accessible young people some great values and life lessons national event for young athletes to represent such as determination, commitment, hard work their school or club in competition at national and teamwork, helping those from disadvantaged level. Over 2000 competitors attended to claim backgrounds to move up in the world. If they are or defend their records. Of these, 100 had some good enough they may, as one very talented young form of disability, 50 percent came from a minority man last year found out, win a scholarship to an ethnic background, and 52 percent were female. American university – a life-changing event. Every known barrier to entry is removed through subsidised entry fees, transport support and travel assistance, and fully adapted equipment being made

The Championships at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre

Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet 17 Educational Bursaries Holly Marie Bingham Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg do what I love most all day every as this opera opens the season. day. I sometimes have to pinch (Graduate of The Guildhall School We rapidly memorised both the myself to believe that I get to go of Music & Drama & recipient of text and music and began staging to work at such a beautiful place. The Henry Osborne Award) in our third week. It is a huge privilege to work on the revival Lara Muller show with Sir David McVicker; some of my favourite productions (studying BA MUS at the Guildhall have been directed by him and School of Music & Drama) I was extremely excited to be a part of this rehearsal process and discover the magic he draws from his colleagues.

We gave our final Dress Rehearsal just a few days ago and it was very well received. It has been an operatic masterclass from day one of rehearsals where, when not singing, I have sat observing and learning from the soloists - their attention to detail in the text, how In costume for Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg they interact with one another on stage and follow the conductor I am already halfway through whilst singing perfectly all at the my contract with Glyndebourne same time has been an invaluable Festival Opera. I still recall lesson for me. the feelings of uncontrollable excitement as I read and re-read Working at Glyndebourne is a real My third year at the Guildhall my invitation to join its 2016 dream come true and just what School of Music and Drama has Chorus. My first two weeks were I had hoped it would be - hard been fantastic, culminating in filled with intense music calls on work, team work and getting to my being cast in the title role

Glyndebourne House with the auditorium behind 18 Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet in Janáček’s The Cunning Little my training, gain performing Prize and the Franz-Schubert- Vixen – our last performance of experience, and broaden my Institut Lieder Competition) and the year. I have also had quite a knowledge of the music industry, to be a finalist in the Chartered number of other opportunities allowing me to continue on my Surveyors’ Prize and the Aria Prize in the last year, including the journey to becoming a world-class at the Guildhall School. organising and performing in opera singer. my own concert. This was hard This term I am looking forward work but hugely rewarding and a Lauren Lodge-West to singing in three song recitals valuable experience that will stand and a Voiceworks concert of me in good stead for the future. (Recipient of The Carpenters’ contemporary vocal music. In In addition I was also honoured Award and student at the Guildhall June I will be performing the to have been asked by the Master School of Music and Drama on role of the Princess in the world to organise and perform excerpts their Artist Masters programme) premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell from the ‘Blues Brothers’ at the Davies’ children’s opera ‘The Company’s Livery Spring Dinner I have thoroughly enjoyed my Hogboon’ with the London and songs by Ray Charles at the time here at the Guildhall School, Symphony Orchestra, conducted Court Summer Dinner. participating in many exciting by Sir Simon Rattle. This summer projects, including recitals, I am following in the footsteps I have realised that as a performer concerts and opera scenes. I took of fellow Carpenters’ Scholar it is important to have as many eggs part in masterclasses from which Holly Bingham, travelling to the as possible in different baskets and I was chosen to be a member Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden, one of these baskets includes some of the Guildhall Song Guild and Austria for the 5 week summer coaching in possible German. My performed in two recitals. I sang course. This is part of my Lieder German coach is in the process of in the Guildhall Consort and was Competition prize. setting up an ‘apprenticeship’ with chosen as a member of the semi the London Symphony Orchestra chorus in Elgar’s ‘The Dream I am hugely grateful for the Chorus, where he coaches German of Gerontius’ with the London Company’s support, as I in the hope that I can put my Symphony Orchestra, which was a wouldn’t be able to experience German to good use (I’m half fantastic experience. I was also very these amazing opportunities German and speak it fluently). So grateful to have won two Guildhall without it. I am very excited at this prospect, competitions (the Susan Longfield especially as Sir Simon Rattle takes up his role as the LSO’s music director in 2017.

This summer I am heading to Italy to work on my Italian (the language of opera). I spent the summer there last year on a language and singing course and am keen to keep it up to standard. I will be staying with family friends in Tuscany and helping out with a music festival that takes place there for a week in August – another chance to take a look at the music industry from a different angle. I am incredibly grateful for the support I have received from the Carpenters’ Company. It has enabled me to focus on Lauren with Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet 19 ARCHIVES Plague, Fire and the Carpenters’ Company 1665-1666

A report by the Archivist, Julie to help those affected by the of plague was building in and Tancell plague, such as 5 shillings to ‘a around London, although it Some 350 years ago the people poore Carpenter whose howse was not felt severely in the City of London were recovering from was visited [by the plague]’. The until June. By July the effect was the worst outbreak of plague Lord Mayor also ordered payments being recorded in the Company’s since the Black Death. By the from the Livery Companies (the minutes by the Clerk Roger end of 1665 a fifth of London’s Carpenters paid £4) for assisting Goodday: on 12th July 11 shillings population, had died (a death toll those ‘visited’ by the plague, and and 4 pence was paid after a of 100,000 people). Londoners substantial amounts were paid to Church service ‘for a refreshment were only allowed a brief respite the Churchwardens of All Hallows’ after a general fast & humiliacon before the calamitous Great Fire Church for helping those affected at [St] Pauls for the visitacon of of September 1666. Although the in the local parish – mostly for the hande of God upon this Citty loss of life in comparison to the food for those quarantined in their by the plague’. victims of the Plague was tiny, . The City under quarantine the impact was devastating, with meant many people could no By 17th July the plague had taken up to 80% of buildings in the City longer earn a living, including the hold, with the Clerk recording destroyed and huge upheaval watermen who transported people that Nathaniel Whitfeild, the as tens of thousands of people on the river. The Company paid apprentice of Richard Barrett, was were displaced. The Carpenters’ their regular waterman 20 shillings made a Freeman that day with his Company was exceptional in to help his business through the ‘service testified by a noate from being spared the loss of its Hall. outbreak, ‘although there was no Mr Barrett (being shut up of the The Company archives record the service’ the Clerk noted. plague therefore could not come effects of both plague and fire. in person)’. The number of deaths The Plague of 1665 was now increasing rapidly, and on The Black Death the 27th July the Company ordered that the election of the Master and From the arrival of the Black Wardens ‘be private in regard of Death in 1348, plague or the great increase of the plague, ‘pestilence’ was a constant visitor without a sermon, dinner, musicke to London. A major outbreak in and other ceremonies only a cup the City in 1603 was recorded in of wine & Naple biskate’ the Company’s Court minutes, when theatres and public events The annual visit in August to were closed and cancelled. About the Company’s almshouses in 35,000 people died of plague Godalming, Surrey still took during the year. place but the Company accounts recorded the reduced number of In 1636 an outbreak was noted the party: ‘£5 14 shillings 4 pence by the Clerk as ‘less fearful in paid for the charge of the Journey extent’, although by the end of to Godalmine this yeare to visit the the outbreak 10,000 people had hospital there according Mr wyats died. As with previous outbreaks, will (3 persons only being now any house where plague was sent in regard of the visitacon)’. The dead cart collecting identified had to be shut up for the bodies of victims forty days with the family and By September many people were any guests inside, marked with a The Company’s archives record suffering and in need of financial cross and guarded by watchmen. the effect of the growing outbreak help. On 1st September 1665 the The Company accounts show on the Company and the City. Company contributed towards that the Court granted money As summer arrived an outbreak the Lord Mayor’s order to the 20 Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet Livery Companies to assist, paying 52 shillings ‘to John Forde and Andrew Clarke Church-wardens of this parish of Alhallowes in the wall for one whole yeares assessement extraordinary upon our hall and officers dwellings … for the releife of poore families visited with the pestilence.’

By 6th September the plague outbreak was affecting the Company’s ability to continue its work – not enough members had come to the Hall to audit the Company accounts. The The 1664 West Wing of Carpenters’ Hall as it was in the early 19th century Clerk noted that ‘some of the [Court] Assistants are fearfull to 1666: The Great Fire Drapers’ Hall, was destroyed, but meete att the Hall in regard of between the two buildings there the plague for that the Beadle The fire began in the early hours was then, as now, much open was buried out of his house of 2nd September 1666, as a small ground, to which circumstance neere the hall yesterday.’ The fire in a bakery on Pudding Lane. our Hall doubtless owed its Court was summoned to meet After a dry summer the wooden preservation”. He lived and again ‘& in the meane time that buildings of the City did not take worked in the same Hall that had fumes & fires be continued long to suffer, aided by a strong survived the Great Fire and had a in the Hall rooms & passages wind which allowed the fire particular interest in its history. thereof to purefie & take away to spread to the riverside. The incense & infeccon [infection].’ warehouses there contained vast The Company had just completed Pipes and tobacco were also amounts of flammable materials the building of a new West Wing provided for Court members including gun powder, hemp, in 1664, housing a ‘great room’ to smoke during meetings. oil, tallow, hay, timber, coal and for the assembly of the whole spirits. By morning, the fire had livery. The gardens around the By December several members of spread halfway across London Hall, which acted as a firebreak, the Company’s Court had fallen Bridge. The fire burned for were adjacent to those of Drapers’ victim, and although thousands of three days, until it halted near Hall although separated by a high those who had left the City had Temple Church. The loss of life wall. After the fire in 1666 and returned and the numbers of deaths as a direct result was minimal the destruction of Drapers’ Hall vastly reduced, the fear of infection (between six and sixteen people) a door was cut through to allow continued to linger. In July 1666 the but as much as 80% of the City access, particularly useful for the Company accounts record “paid for was destroyed, including 13,000 Drapers’ Company who were a private dinner … for the [Court] houses, 89 churches, and 52 Guild using Carpenters’ Hall. As one of Assistants only on the quarter day Halls. Thousands of citizens were the very large few buildings left this yeare (all publique meetings made homeless and financially standing, Carpenters’ Hall was & feastings being prohibited by ruined as the economic life soon in demand for use not only superior authority for avoiding of of London collapsed. by a number of livery companies the Infeccon)” but also by four successive Lord Carpenters’ Hall in 1666 – a Mayors, as their own private rare survivor residences and the Guildhall itself had suffered in the fire. In 1848 Edward Jupp, Clerk to the Carpenters’ Company, noted Although the Hall survived, the that the Great Fire “did not reach devastation around the area Carpenters’ Hall. Its neighbour, was huge. Close by, Moorfields  p22 Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet 21 Plague, Fire and the Carpenters’ Company 1665-1666 continued became home to many thousands of displaced people living in tents, and Edward Jupp imagined ‘that not a few of the poor creatures suddenly deprived of their homes would take advantage of the shelter afforded by so capacious a building as Carpenters’ Hall, or crowd into the open space about it.’

The Court records of the time show that the Company took active measures for the Hall’s safety, removing valuables away from the area and organising a guard to protect the building. Between 2nd and 5th September whilst the fire raged, Warden Seagood, the Clerk and the Beadle worked ‘to preserve & secure from the fire all the Companies Evidences, Plate, books, accounts, writings, Gownes, Carpetts, & other things … by Cartage, portage, Cibber’s bas relief on the Monument to the Great Fire of London. Behind the & removeing thereof to severall figure of Charles II scaffolding represents the rebuilding of the City (top right) places remote from the fire’. Hall (one of the few surviving to quench & keepe the Fire, as Members of the Company were large buildings not in ruins) also for prevention of robberies summoned to ‘appear, advise, once the fire was out were & burglaries from Wednesday 5 & assist for the preservacon of taken, with ‘severall men hired Sept to the Sunday following.’ the hall from the danger of the to watch & guard the hall. & fire’. Measures to protect the to goe the rounds, & to assist

AFFILIATIONS Daring Award for Excellence Chief Petty Officer Martin Talbot (centre) was presented with the HMS DARING Award for Excellence by the Master Michael Neal at the June Court, accompanied by Lt Cdr Ben Kadinopoulos (right)

22 Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet HMS DARING Lt Cdr Rachel Singleton, Weapons Engineer Officer, Royal Navy, reports: After a busy Autumn programme undertaking sea trials in the midst of storms of various names, HMS DARING returned to Portsmouth for Christmas and a welcome break for members of the Ship’s Company with their families and friends. The New Year started with a short period alongside before sailing for a productive week of trials and training. February saw the embarkation of the Royal Navy’s Wildcat Helicopter – Operated by 204 Flight on board HMS DARING latest Wildcat helicopter and its 11-strong Flight, who will followed should damage occur Ship’s Company including her be a core part of DARING’s and important capabilities lost. previous Captain, Ship’s Company and suite of With the chance to exercise some capabilities for the deployment. of the wider roles that DARING Capt Angus Essenhigh OBE RN A replacement for the ageing, could be asked to take on, from and recently departed Executive Lynx aircraft, with state-of-the- disaster relief to a non-combatant Warrant Officer, WO1 Garry art sensors and outstanding evacuation, the Ship’s Company Parkes. With some planned time performance, the Wildcat is one pulled together impressively. in base port over the Summer the of the world’s most advanced Ship’s Company looks forward helicopters. The flight soon Unable to release serving Ship’s to further engagement with the integrated with the Ship and Company from the demands Carpenters’ Company before in addition to the operational of training, DARING was ably departing for a nine-month capability, brought benefits represented at the annual deployment in the Autumn. such as the ability to take aerial Carpenters’ Golf and Clay Shoot photography, put to good use events by former members of for a photograph to celebrate DARING’s tenth anniversary since her launch on 1st February 2006.

The main focus for the Ship at the start of the year has been a six-week period of operational sea training, which tested the Ship’s ability to cope with a diverse array of challenges. Training ranged from simulated fires and floods at sea and in harbour in a benign peace time environment, to the ‘weekly war’ in which HMS DARING operated as part of a Task Group to overcome multiple threats from the air, HMS DARING’s Ship’s Company formed the number ten on the flight land, surface and subsurface, deck for a photograph to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Ship’s practising the procedures to be launch on 1 Feb 2006. (Photographer: Lt Andrew Henderson RN) Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet 23 4th Battalion The Rifles 2Lt Tom Court, Platoon Commander, reports: B Company is currently held at High Readiness as The last year has been busy for 4 RIFLES. Alongside the Mechanised Company in the Lead Armoured preparations for assuming High Readiness in 2016, Battle Group. This involves ensuring that the fleet of the Battalion moved from Bulford to Aldershot and vehicles is serviceable and that the Riflemen are fit completed its conversion to the mechanised infantry and ready to be deployed if required at short notice. role. The culmination of this effort was the Battalion’s B Company has now deployed to Canada as a light deployment on exercise, achieving formal validation role company within the Royal Canadian Dragoons in our new role. This exercise had two distinct Battle Group. elements. Initially, it saw the Battalion conduct a fortnight of dismounted live firing on Otterburn R Company has been focused on training and selecting ranges in Northumberland, which tested the skills the future Junior Non Commissioned Officers for the and resilience of the Riflemen over long days in poor entire Regiment. On 8th February, 97 Riflemen from weather conditions over demanding terrain. The across The Rifles arrived at Rollestone Camp to begin second phase, on Salisbury Plain, focused on the an arduous six week course, which if completed use of the fleet of MASTIFF, HUSKY and JACKAL would see them promoted from Rifleman to Lance armoured vehicles, originally brought into service Corporal. The cadre tested physical robustness and for operations in Afghanistan. The exercise was an soldiering capability, with the emphasis on ability to ideal opportunity for the Battalion to develop further lead a four-man fire team, both in and out of combat. its doctrine for mechanised infantry forces when The students spent time on Salisbury Plain and the fighting within an armoured brigade. Brecon Beacons before the final two-week exercise on Thetford training area in Norfolk. 57 Riflemen Since Christmas, the pace has not slowed at all. completed the cadre, witnessed by friends and family Recently A Company has returned from a six week on the Parade Square on 24th March. R Company has deployment to Belize, during which Riflemen now switched its attention to a period of consolidated took part in a four-day survival exercise with local training, looking forward to an urban-themed exercise trackers, a four-day navigation and tracking exercise at Longmoor, a helicopter-supported strike onto a and a four-day patrol skills phase under the guidance disused airfield, a visit to the Special Boat Service of Jungle Warfare Instructors. Following this, the and an exercise in Kenya in September. Company conducted five days of live firing, working up to a platoon level camp attack in primary jungle, S Company has also been kept busy maintaining the before concluding with an arduous final exercise. High Readiness training and vehicle maintenance as

Riflemen assault a building during exercise WESSEX STORM 24 Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet well as finding more novel training opportunities. New vehicle drivers and commanders have been qualified to account for the movement of personnel over recent months. In January, the Company conducted Public Order Training at Longmoor Camp, the first experience of riot control for many of the Riflemen.

The Battalion has also seen significant sporting success with the Nordic Ski Team winning the Infantry championships in Bessans and qualifying for the Army finals, becoming the first RIFLES Battalion to do so since its formation in 2007. The Boxing Team The 4 RIFLES Nordic Ski Team was narrowly beaten in the Army quarter finals. And four of our Riflemen have been selected to represent the British Army Shooting Team during the World Championship in Australia this Spring.

IV(R) Squadron RAF Flt Lt Sarah Brown, Adjutant, such as Solenzara and Culdrose. four per week. We pride ourselves reports: The aim of these detachments is to in the work carried out with the Since Christmas, IV Sqn has had a give students the knowledge and Blue Skies Project, headed by Flt successful output of 13 students, skills of operating from different Lt Ellis Williams, where we have with three remaining at RAF air bases and the experience of again recently hosted a series of Valley to become Qualified Flying foreign airspace and procedures. visits and work experience for Instructors and the remainder With Solenzara, this also provides under-privileged children from moving forward to their designated the opportunity to maximise the local area. Typhoon or Tornado squadrons. training in more open airspace with optimum weather conditions. A major change coming up in In addition the Squadron has August and September will be maintained its ability to detach As always, the Squadron remains the Runway Resurfacing Project. various personnel to locations busy with visits averaging three to RAF Valley will continue to run as normal on the ground but will see its Fast Jets assets deployed to another station in order to continue with flying training.

Hawk TMK2 operating out of Solenzara

Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet 25 Company Visit to The Hague (11th -13th May 2016)

A guided tour of the Mauritshuis

A serious moment at Dinner in ‘It Rains Fishes’

26 Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet Roz Wheeler, Deborah Gregson, Hugh Barnes-Yallowley and Deirdre Luton in the Ambassador’s Garden

The Master with former Dutch Ambassador and The Master thanks our Honorary Freeman Pieter Waldeck Ambassador for his hospitality Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet 27 PASTIMES Inter-Livery Ski-ing

Liveryman Mark Horn reports: Once again, the annual Inter-Livery Ski Championships took place during January in Morzine, France, and the Carpenters’ Company was represented for the second year running. The start of the ski season had been conspicuous for the lack of snowfall in the Alps, but thankfully the snow fell just in time and we had some excellent skiing. This year our modified team comprised of Freemen Jane Evelegh, Frances Galbraith (daughter of Liveryman Richard), and Liverymen Ben Brading and Mark Horn. We were delighted to finish seventh overall out of the 33 livery teams that entered. Mark Horn, Jane Evelegh and Frances Galbraith on the slopes

There were many different awards presented during Much of our racing success must be attributed to the gala dinner and this year we provided a new the excellent support that we received during the trophy known as ‘The Wooden Skis’, presented trip, from Richard and Liz Galbraith, Philip Brading to the slowest team in recognition of the fun of and Jon Evelegh. The combination of competitive participation. It is a fine trophy carved from oak and recreational skiing in the relaxed and sociable by Matthew Whiteley, maker in residence at the atmosphere of this event is to be recommended Building Crafts College, and was very well received. and I hope that more Carpenters will be tempted The trophy went to the Leathersellers’ third team to put their names forward for next year (19-20th and was presented by Richard Galbraith. January 2017).

Bridge Past Master Martin Samuel lost to the Cordwainers’ (although Angi Birts returned after a few reports: we ran them close this year). For years absence. I know that we We have completed another the Inter-Livery, I partnered Jo will be seeing more of them both. enjoyable season of Bridge with Wade for the first time and we I conclude by thanking Penny six in-house events, two friendly achieved a highly creditable 12th and David Newman for their help matches against the Girdlers’ and place out of the 58 pairs that took with the catering but reserve the Cordwainers’ Companies and the part. Every year I plead for more greatest thanks for Steve Rapley Inter-Livery Bridge Competition. Bridge players to come forward of the Hall Staff for the cooking of In the friendly matches, we tied and this season Frances Onions his gourmet dinners. with the Girdlers’ and as usual played for the very first time and

Golf Company Golf Day and our guests - Warrant Officers Rob Parsons and John Bolam of 4 RIFLES and Garry Parkes of Liveryman Richard Samuel reports: HMS DARING - were treated to an early breakfast The smiles of Liverymen, guests and weather of coffee and bacon rolls. This has become gods were all present and correct at this year’s traditional preparation for our annual address of Company Golf Day. The Stableford Competition the RAC’s Old Course, set in the rolling hills of took place on Thursday, 21st April at the RAC the Epsom Downs. The Course is a welcoming Golf Club in Woodcote Park, Epsom. Liverymen challenge for any amateur golfer. 28 Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet Team Carpenters at the RAC Club

After a thoroughly enjoyable round, a lavish lunch of 37 points. WO2 Rob Parsons was the leading guest was provided at the Club by the Company. Although with 31 points. he did not play, Past Master, RAC Member and event sponsor, Martin Samuel was able to join the 13 Feeling adventurous, I was then lucky enough to golfers for luncheon. At the end of the meal, Marcus join our three enthusiastic guests for a second round Dill was presented with the Newman Trophy by our on the Club’s Coronation Course (my swing needed host, Past Master John Sennitt, for his winning score the practice, my legs did not!). Many thanks to the Clerk’s Personal Assistant, Mrs Caroline Stevens, for arranging a great start to the golfing season. It is a fantastic event that should be enjoyed by more Liverymen. Please contact the Clerk if you are interested in taking part next year.

Inter-livery Golf Day

Liveryman Rowan Montague-Smith writes: On 19th May, 52 Livery Company teams converged on Walton Heath Golf Club to compete for the Prince Arthur Cup. I paired Marcus Dill and Geoff Rhodes paired Sandy Macqueen in representing the Carpenters’ Company (drawn with the Clockmakers’ Company). Both pairs played some solid golf in the morning round on the New Course, each posting totals of -2. Sandy Macqueen conjured some true Seve magic on the 11th, chipping in from a fiendishly thick grassy position. Following an energy-boosting lunch, the teams took to the Old Course, posting scores of -6 and -2 to finish the day a very creditable 17th out of the 52 strong field. It was a pleasure to play on the historic courses which were in excellent condition due to the impending US Open qualifying match which was due to take place over the May Liveryman Marcus Dill receives the trophy Bank Holiday weekend. from Past Master John Sennitt Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet 29 Livery Clay Shoot Liveryman Richard Mitton reports: We held our annual Clay Shoot at West London Shooting Grounds on 22nd April which was, as always, a thoroughly enjoyable day. We believe that our first Clay Shoot was in 1994, when West London didn’t even have catering, so we ended up having lunch in a grotty pub the other side of the A40. Since then the Grounds have improved out of all recognition although some of our original guns are, sadly, no longer with us. HMS DARING was at sea but The shooting party assembled at the West London Shooting Grounds we were delighted that one of her former Commanding Officers, for ‘elevenses’, followed by two sight of us standing below with Angus Essenhigh could join us, more stands and the Grand Finale guns might result in us all being along with two young officers - being the flush. A ‘flush’ is 30 blown to smithereens. Fortunately from 4 RIFLES - 2 Lts Tom Court clays projected over the heads we avoided losing the Master to and Ben Udy. of four guns in quick succession ‘friendly fire’. which is great fun. We then had After bacon butties we divided an unexpected sight: a cavalcade After a genial lunch came the into four teams, named after of US Marine helicopters and Prize-giving. Angus Essenhigh long-forgotten carpentry tools. two Ospreys (a cross between a won the Inter-Service Prize - we Clearly the Master had been helicopter and a plane) flying low didn’t think there were many researching medieval carpentry overhead taking President Obama chances to practise shooting at tools on Google. We then shot to Windsor for lunch with the clays on a ship? Then Liveryman a few stands before returning Queen. We were worried that the Allen Zimbler was announced as the winner of the Livery Competition with an excellent score. Allen is something of a dark horse, as he likes to say he has only just taken up shooting, so we reckon that he must have been having lots of lessons at West London! Regardless, he thoroughly deserved winning the silver trophy kindly loaned to us by The Rifles.

Our thanks to the Clerk’s PA, Mrs Caroline Stevens, for organising the day and to West London for being such splendid hosts. Our annual clay shoot is great fun so I would encourage other Liverymen to join us, even if you barely know Allen Zimbler, winner of the Livery Competition is the basics of handling a shotgun. presented with the trophy by the Author 30 Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet Admissions During the past year the following have been admitted:

To the Livery:

All by Redemption: On 5th April 2016 Hannah Bower – Charity Fund Raiser (Help for On 28th July 2015 Heroes), daughter of the Middle Warden Richard Hamilton – Director of Strategy, Department of Business, Innovation and Skills On 1st May 2016 Harry Neal – Chartered Surveyor, son of the Master On 6th October 2015 William Frapell – Marketing Executive, son-in- On 5th July 2016 to Deputy Master Philippa Boardman MBE – Canon Treasurer of St. Paul’s Cathedral

To the Freedom:

On 6th October 2015 On 8th March 2016 By Redemption: For their service to the Company (Building Crafts Penny Bendall – Ceramic Conservator to HM The College): Queen/Lecturer Laura Tavares For service to the Company (Building Crafts Rahul Dixit College): Frances Hill Michael Hedgeland Francis Williams Marcus Dadson On 5th April 2016 On 3rd November 2015 By Redemption: In recognition of her excellence in the Craft. Francesca Gregson – Design/PR co-ordinator Emma Leslie – Wood Maker of the Wood Awards/web site design consultant, In recognition of his service to the Company as a daughter of the Clerk member of the Hall Staff: Michael Topolski – Old Bailey Judge Peter Holt On 5th July 2016 In recognition of his service to the Company: Joost Roselaers – Minister of the Dutch Church

To the Honorary Freedom:

On 2nd February 2016 His Excellency Simon Smits, The Dutch Ambassador

The Dutch Ambassador and his wife at the Company’s Spring Dinner

Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet 31 Company Appointments

The following held appointments during the Company year 2015/2016: Master: ...... Mr. M. H. W. Neal Senior Warden: ...... Mr. A. M. Gregory-Smith Middle Warden: ...... Mrs. R. F. Bower Junior Warden: ...... His Hon. P. W. Birts, QC Clerk: ...... Brigadier T. J. Gregson Assistant Clerk: ...... Mr. P. J. G. Sadd Beadle: ...... Mr. C. C. Wilson Company Solicitor: ...... Mr. M. Ackland of Wedlake Bell Company Surveyor: ...... Mr. J. C. Harding of Daniel Watney Company Auditor: ...... Mr. C. R. Cooper of Buzzacott

Chairmen of Committees General Purposes Committee: ...... Mr. M. R. Mathews Building Crafts College Committee: ...... Mr. G. P. S. Downes Craft Committee: ...... Mr. M. R. Mosley Investments Committee: ...... Mr. H. M. Lancaster Rustington Convalescent Home Committee of Management: . . . . The Revd Dr. W. P. Povey Charitable Grants Committee: ...... Mr. M. J. Samuel Admissions Committee: ...... Mr. M. R. Mathews

Co-opted Members of Committees General Purposes Committee: ...... Lord Flight, of Worcester ...... Mr. M. Morrison

Building Crafts College Committee: ...... Mr. S. Sutcliffe ...... Dr. L. D. G. Grossman ...... Mr. S. G. Corbett ...... Mrs. K. A. Buchan

Craft Committee: ...... Mr. J. M. Burton ...... Mr. N. Gutfreund ...... Dr. A. Zimbler ...... Mr. P. W. Brading ...... Mr. W. N. Avery

Investments Committee: ...... Mr. A. N. Birts ...... Mr. E. A. C. Cottrell ...... Mr. J. R. D. Korner ...... Mrs. M. C. Roberts

32 Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet Rustington Convalescent Home Committee of Management: . . . . Mr. R. G. Gregory-Smith ...... Mr. J. W. Preston ...... Dr. C. N. Birts ...... Mr. R. C. Lester

Charitable Grants Committee: ...... Mrs. L. J. Symons ...... Mrs. A. C. Macadam ...... Mr. N. S. Corderey ...... Captain D. I. Burns, RN

Trustees Carpenters’ Company Charitable Trust: ...... Mr. V. G. Morton-Smith ...... Mr. P. A. Luton ...... Mr. M. R. Mathews (Chairman) ...... Mr. M. J. Samuel

Company Pension Fund Trustees: ...... Mr. M. R. Mosley (Chairman) ...... Mr. R. G. Gregory-Smith ...... Mr. J. C. M. Taylor ...... Mr. D. R. Pearham ...... Mr. P. J. G. Sadd

Company Representatives The following served as Company representatives:

Christ’s Hospital Donation Governor: ...... Mr. J. W. Preston City & Guilds of London Association: ...... Mr. H. M. Neal (President) City & Guilds of London Institute: ...... Mr. M. H. W. Neal (Council) until April then ...... Mr. M. P. S. Horn (Council) Carpenters & Docklands Centre, Stratford: ...... Mr. M. P. S. Horn Carpenters Primary School: ...... Mr. M. J. Samuel (Governor) The Royal College of Art: ...... Mrs E. E. Birts Carpenters’ Craft Competition Committee: ...... Mr. J. C. M. Taylor (Chairman) Livery Companies Skills Council: ...... Mr. J. M. Burton Construction Liveries Group: ...... Mr. P. A. Luton Institute of Carpenters: ...... Mr. W. N. Avery (President)

Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet 33 Gifts to the Company 2015-2016

Past Master M. J. Samuel Liveryman J.T.H. Williams Samuel Pepys. The Unequalled Self Claire Tomalin The Home Workshop Odhams Press (2002) Past Master H.M.F. Barnes-Yallowley The Technique of Furniture Making Alan Peters (1997) The Knights of St John in Malta Simon Mercieca (2006) Mrs Carol Wilson (Former Almsman) Ghosts of London H. V. Morton (1939); The Godalming 400 David Coombs (1978) The British Heritage Odhams Press (1948); Deputy Master M.W.F. Felton Windsor Castle. Official Souvenir Guide Royal Framed Ordnance Survey Street Map of the City of Collection Trust (2012); London Diamond Jubilee Official Programme 2012 The York Merchant Adventurers and their Hall Pamela Hartshorne (ed.) (2011) Mr. Keith Molyneux Modern Carpenter & Joiner vols 1-3 Harry Bryant Anne Lancashire (Records of Early English Newbold (c. 1920) Drama), Modern Practical Joinery George Ellis (1925, 6th ed) Civic London to 1558 (3 volumes) Anne Lancashire Woodcarving Woodworker Series (1921) (ed.) (2015) Architecture Carpentry and Buildings vols 1-5 Liveryman B.F. Dutton American Technical Society (1925) Almshouses Brian Bailey (1988) The Practical Woodworker vols 1-4 Bernard E Jones (c. 1920) Mr. John Osborne, Institute of Carpenters Timber in Construction John Sunley & Barbara Professor Trevor Marchand Bedding (eds.) (1985) Craftwork as Problem Solving. Ethnographic Building Geometry and Drawing Frank Hilton Studies of Design and Making Trevor H.J. Marchand (1973) (Ed) (2016)

Building Construction Metric Volumes 1-4 Past Master J. A. C. Wheeler J. K. McKay (1970 -1975) All Manner of Workmanship Robert Gage (Ed.) A Dictionary of Building John S. Scott (1964) (2015)

The Whiteley Homes Trust Past Master D. F Newman Whiteley’s Folly. The Life and Death of a Salesman War & Peas. Intimate Letters from the Falklands Linda Stratmann (2004) War 1982 John Lippiett (2007) The Whiteley Homes Trust Alan Brown (1992)

Past Master V.G. Morton-Smith: The Furniture of Rupert Williamson Rupert Williamson (2014)

Liveryman H.D.M. Petter The Country House Ideal. Recent Work by Adam Architecture Jeremy Musson (2015)

34 Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet Calendar 2016

September 29th Election of The Lord Mayor

October 4th Livery and Freemen’s Reception 19th Livery Wine-tasting Evening

November 12th The Lord Mayor’s Show 16th Livery Dinner 22nd Wood Awards Ceremony in Hall 24th Building Crafts College Prize Giving in Hall

December 5th Carpenters Primary School Christmas Party in Hall

2017 (Provisional)

January 19–20th Inter-livery Ski-ing, Morzine, France

March 15th Livery Spring Dinner 31st United Guilds Service

April 4th Craft Lecture 20th Company Golf, Woodcote Park 28th Company Clay Pigeon Shoot, West London Shooting School

May 11–12th Company Visit 18th Inter Livery Golf

June 14th Court Summer Dinner 26th Election of Sheriffs 29th Building Crafts College End-of- Year Show in Hall

July 12th Company Tennis 13th Court Visit to Rustington Convalescent Home 18th General Court of the Livery and Election Court

August 1st Installation Court

Carpenters’ Company Broadsheet 35 The new Master’s Chair by John Makepeace

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